Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Report from Butch. First of these returns from the front was brought in by the Navy's "Butch" O'Hare. What the Navy needed, he told Grumman men, was a fighter aircraft that could outclimb and outmaneuver a Zero, carry more .50-caliber guns than the Wildcat (four), lug a decent load of armor, and range farther than any Navy fighter had ever ranged before...
...zero hour the bulldozer advanced on the village and from the western sky at the same moment there swept an air escort of a single R.A.F. twin-engined Beaufighter, thus ensuring that Tommy would have his air cover against any resist ance during operations. As the bulldozer advanced into "action," the fighter dived on the village, firing a succession of Very-light (flare) cartridges. Resistance collapsed. The "enemy" surrendered and the operations were concluded...
Lieut. William Pittman tried desperately to save Cheli. He pulled up out of formation head on for a Zero, exposing himself to the whole pack. Lightnings rescued him. But Cheli was beyond help. As he turned-out to sea he called to his wingman to take over. He put the plane down. Pittman said it seemed to explode when it hit the water...
Lieut. Tom Harmon, 1940's top gridiron star, sole survivor of a plane crash in the jungles of French Guiana last April, bagged his first Zero in a raid on Hong Kong...
...direct hits had been scored on buildings there. But I was disappointed at the apparent ineffectiveness of our aerial bombardment. Some buildings had received a direct hit or two during the hundreds of raids in the past 14 months, but the Japs themselves blew up their subs and the Zero wings and tails in the hangar were damaged by strafing, not bombing. Bomb hits had scarcely affected the Allis-Chalmers tractor which sat on the concrete floor of the hangar. Not one of the 6-in. coast artillery guns had been hit by bombs, though they had been prime targets...